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[asvidema]

a bit late, but i decided i'd give it a shot anyway

hansry day 1 - flowers

[mandareeboo]

I think it's such an interesting facet of Noelle's character that, regardless of whatever route you choose these past few chapters, Noelle just instinctively knows that Kris is "off".

She tries to downplay their childhood together to not seem odd to Susie but then she hears the slightest hitch in their voice and knows something completely different from their norm happening. It's not just a coping mechanism in Snowgrave-- it's an objective fact that Noelle can take one goddamn LOOK at Kris and know something is deeply wrong in her gut and that's so cool.

[bulbagarden]

just a reminder that AI art entries to our collab are not permitted, please and thank you :)

[equill]

The Warden

Panel: No escape.

Ok, now just some silly ideas to share (playing around with the au)

Comic 1: Invading dreams

Extra: no thanks.

Comic 2: Unwanted attention

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Check out. The fully-sexual charged cinematic movement design.

Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?

[heart-select]

It's interesting to realize the dynamic of Diluc probably being withheld information a lot growing up for the sake of keeping innocence (Crepus making his own dealings with the fatui. the capabilities of the winery. Kaeya's origins. Corruption within the KoF etc.). In the end, its information he got but only after a lot of cost because he wasn't given equipment how to deal with them, esp so abruptly all at once after tragedies

[jewelthenerd]

Silent Salt sketches because I just think they’re neat

[peasant-player]

Elrond with dramborleg

"His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the light of stars."

This drawing was for @armenelols and @polutrope post about elrond using a family heirloom "dramborleg".

Oh boy I had so much fun.

My main thought while painting this was " what would be different about elrond?"

And the answer is alot but a the same time nothing.

Elrond is in a way a sad character he kind of lost everything and the only constance in his life is the heralded past of his ancestors/family and friends.

He almost can't remember his parents but he can read about them even maglor is ,despite being a kindslayer, described as strong imposing and a mighty warrior.

His own brother,who chooses mortality,is a revered king!

This elrond that I depicted here is not the lord of Riverdale. Not married yet.

This is a elrond who will stand between evil and his folk.

Just like his ancestors did.

He is holding a legacy of strong unrelenting men who did change the tides of war who done the impossible no one else did before them!.

This is also elrond who found out that his brothers legacy Numenor is at the bottom of the sea - because of sauron.

This is a elrond who becomes a lord for many different kind of elves because he is a different kind of elve.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

y'all need to see this ancient t-shirt my dad still had from the 90s

[llyfrenfys]

See, I personally find this quest to find pagan/pre-Christian elements in Welsh/Irish literature quite unnerving - I don't know about anyone else.

There's something to be said about genuinely discovering pre-Christian elements in a narrative or story and that being where evidence and study has led you. But I see some people on this fruitless quest to find pagan elements in very Christian texts and sometimes it feels like if no pagan elements can be found, people start making stuff up out of whole cloth - and that can be very dangerous for already not-well known texts in minoritised languages!

There's already so much misinformation out there about Irish/Welsh texts and literature in general - so it hurts to see people carelessly adding to the misinformation either out of ignorance or lack of respect for the source material.

I promise you the source material being Christian doesn't ruin it - you can in fact, enjoy these myths without making them into something they're not!

[merlyn-bane]

i still can't believe skywalker got a slap on the wrist after all of that nonsense with r2 instead of, idk, a fucking court martial?

[mote-of-ash]

Thought dredged up by nothing in particular

genuinely its a tossup between whether or not i transitioned so late because of apathy or repression but i think the main takeaway is that some people literally just arent ready to be a person until their mid 20's at best and thats not a condemnation. in my case apparently i was so extremely mentally unwell in highschool that i dont even REMEMBER that i tried taking anti-depressants already, and that they made me very angry. i remember scant few things from my school years period but most of what i do recall is not pleasant.

like its not even a case of that past version of me being dead so much as they never existed in the first place. its all gone, i'd like to request a do-over but then that means i'd have to like, live in rural illinois again wich i do not recommend. therapists would have a field day i swear, don't even know what i'd say to one tbh.

[beatriceportinari]

Another year, another outfit to die in! Happy birthday again Izuna!!!!!!

Like last year, I played with someone else's lines for these charming patterns, thank you so much Lena @elhnrt ! I had a ton of fun :D

Check the readmore for pattern references and explanations, there are some easter eggs in there :)

(x,x,x,x)

My goal for this piece, in addition to playing with patterns and textures and adding some Naruto references, was to add as many death flags as possible.

The idea of having Izuna in a fireman's coat is obviously not from me. I've always like the idea of Uchihas in fire resistant clothes, and the opportunity for a thick texture alongside a reversible double pattern is very appealing. I used the image of the second reference as a base, with skulls on one side and stylized lightning patterns on the other (visible inside the sleeves and collar). Both were common immagery of firemen coats.

The actual skull pattern is taken from the third reference. I'd seen this one before and before even learning anything abt it it was too beautiful to pass up. Those white and navy gradients are absolutely delightful and I enjoyed using my gel pens for them very much.... This particular type of imagery with skulls and bones in a field is called Nozarashi, inspired by Buddhist representation of death and transience.

The lightning pattern itself is a reference to water and lightning dragons :) Like Tobirama's iconic jutsu, it's one of the hints of what's abt to happen to our little guy. The scabbard is also decorated with dragon motifs for the same reason.

The background pattern is taken from the first reference, another fireman's coat with an illustration of Raijin, the thunder god. He is often representated with drums decorated with tomoes. It works nicely as a standard looking sharingan illustration, with a reference to Tobirama's hiraishingiris with the thunder imagery, like the thunder patterns inside the coat.

If you're interested in this I recommend the book linked in the second reference! It is entirely about skeleton motifs in japanese clothing of the early 20th century.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

its actually insane to me how many people are willing to wholeheartedly believe that something is bad without knowing what it is 😭 if you have "proshippers dni" in your bio, i dont think youre a bad person but i do immediately assume youre a little stupid 😖 you guys get so caught up in associating a word with something you saw or something someone else told you, you dont realize youre literally saying "if youre anti-harassment, GET OFF MY BLOG 😝"

i get that the label has been watered down by people who just use it as an excuse to be shitty online and harass people under the guise of moral superiority, but those people are just freaks and by definition arent even proshippers 😭 so can we not like ENCOURAGE false information by making everyone in the world believe thats what a proshipper is

[anistarrose]

This isn't something I would describe as a prominent or even intentional theme, but there's something fascinating to me about how TAZ Balance characters associated with composing and performing music are almost entirely correlated with either being forgotten, or having an incredibly warranted fear of being forgotten.

Johann is obviously the latter. I have an ongoing fic about his parallels with Barry — who plays piano, and who is the character we see spend the most time knowing he has been forgotten by people dear to him, and grappling with it. And I've seen the Johann and Lup dynamic get well-deserved attention in AUs where she lives, and they get to relate to each other as violinists — yet the parallels are at their strongest in canon, where Lup is the "most" dead of all the undead characters, the "most" forgotten, the most reduced to a near-invisible specter haunting the narrative, and the most like Johann's worst nightmare.

There's even a parallel with Davenport, who is a beautiful singer, and whose life story and dreams and achievements are all completely erased. So that's three different characters whose forgotten stories — which Johann obviously does not know — still serve to silently justify Johann's fear of the same fate, emphasizing just how likely it is that it could come to pass. How yes, it would be that horrifying.

And as a non-musician, but an artist of a kind myself... it all resonates. The fear of one's legacy being forgotten is a common fear in general, but it has a particular type of teeth to it for us creatives, who shudder in terror at the thought of a masterwork — that feels like a piece of one's soul — being forgotten, let alone cut short by untimely tragedy.

But that's why I treasure, so dearly, that all of these musically inclined characters — Barry, Lup, Davenport, Johann — are not forgotten permanently, but instead immortalized by the Story and Song, no matter the varying degrees of alive and dead that they wind up in the end. I treasure the parallels between these characters that say being forgotten is a grounded, reasonable thing to fear; that it is scary — but that no matter what, memory will still find a way.

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

So this is how I find out Gophergal is a proshipper.